Four surviving American women told how they lived a terrible year after the terrorist attack in Las Vegas - ForumDaily
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Four surviving American women told how they lived a terrible year after the terrorist attack in Las Vegas

Amber, Martha, Annette and Maria, although they have lived all their lives in the small town of Rancho Cucamonga in Southern California, did not know each other until misfortune brought them together. The “sisters in misfortune” met in a psychologist’s office. All the women were at the Route 91 Country Music Festival on October 2017, 32, when Stephen Paddock shot concertgoers from the 59nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel. 546 people were killed and another XNUMX were injured.

Photo: Voice of America

Amber shows off the tattoo she got on her leg: "Run, don't look back, just keep running," writes Voice of America. She repeated these words perhaps a hundred times, covering her daughter with her body as they ran away from the gunfire in panic. She injured the Achilles tendon on that leg, but didn’t feel the pain from the injury until months later—that’s how long it took for the stress to start to subside.

Photo: Voice of America

For the first two months, I barely left the house,” says Amber Burgoon. “I was just taking my son to school.” I felt that home was the only place where I could be safe. No one will come and shoot me here. I don't have to constantly turn around or look for emergency exits.

Photo: Voice of America

Photo: Voice of America

For a long time she couldn’t force herself to go to the mall, she was frightened that there was only one emergency exit. Neither her friends nor her family understood her fears and panic attacks. The husband, with whom they lived 10 for years, left her just before Christmas.

Martha was at the concert with her husband. These photos were taken five minutes before the shots.

Photo: Voice of America

At that moment they were right in front of the stage, in the most vulnerable part of the concert area for bullets. They survived thanks to Martha's husband, a lifeguard by profession.

Photo: Voice of America

Photo: Voice of America

He told me: “We will not run with the crowd. If they shoot at a crowd, we don't want to be in it. I know he was right. But then these decisions that you make in a moment of danger in order to survive at any cost, in order to return home to your children, admitting the thought that they are better than you... these decisions haunt you.”

Photo: Voice of America

The women met each other at an appointment with a psychologist, where they turned when they could not cope with post-traumatic syndrome on their own. And now, if friends and family can't understand their “new normal,” they say, they can always call their sisters in distress.

“The girls are like family to me, they understand me and don’t judge me for my fears,” Amber says.

Photo: Voice of America

“We are all injured, and probably one day we will get better, but it’s a long process...”

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